Maples, dogwoods, grape, and sumac twinkle and dance with particulate color in any little breeze, and the decorated twigs of sourwood trees swoop out like plump birds scattering.
Triple-threat that you are, you grab your baseball bat (made from a maple tree), your clarinet (made from an African blackwood tree), and your lines for the play (printed on paper from a pine tree).
The last word was Brobdingnagian meaning gigantic, and it's with great pleasure that we give a Brobdingnagian shout out to Maple Grove Middle School in Maple Grove, Minnesota.
The next morning the bushes and maple trees outside their windows were red, gold and orange, and there was frost on the ground, confirming that fall had arrived in Canada.
But other species, like maples and birches and larches, combine a less extreme level of sugar in their leaves with the practice of going leafless during the winter to avoid foliar frostbite.
Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.